Although he is a filmmaker at the age of 34 Fatih Akin had two breathtaking films under his belt. Head On and the Edge of Heaven, both of which when they premiered at various film festivals. Both movies were heavy dramas with characters of Turkish descent living in Germany and how they were able to define their homes and their roles, but Akin’s new movie Soul Kitchen couldn’t be any more different than his previous outings, being more of a light hearted comedy focused around the young owner of a restaurant with several different problems.
Another man owned a similar restaurant and whom in fact inspired the writing of the movie is trying to keep his restaurant soul Kitchen in the green but no matter what he does, he just can’t seem to get the customers to come into the restaurant. When his convict brother gets out of prison he comes to his brother for a job and things really start to get complicated then. A number of factions want to close the family owned restaurant or turn it into something that its not. Akin also reunites in the movie with another character who starred in his movie Head On, this time playing an eccentric chef he hires to try to make his restaurant more upscale.
Akin is a director people have wanted to talk to for quite some time. And many were intrigued by those unique earlier films he did. Soul Kitchen is really quite different being a far more commercial type mainstream film. But audiences looking for an easy way into the world of Akin should be able to enjoy its mix of food, music, humor, and romance. This new movie the Soul Kitchen is a light hearted film and a good method of telling a story in a way that we have never seen from Akin in the past. There is an exclusive clip from the film available for you to view.
